ON HENRY MILLER

The American writer Henry Miller's critical reputation--if not his popular readershiphas been in eclipse at least since Kate Millet 's blistering critique in Sexual Politics, her landmark 1970 study of misogyny in literature and art. Even a Miller fan like the acc laimed Scottish writer John Burnside finds Miller's sex booksincluding The Rosy Crucifixion, The Tropic of Cancer, and The Tropic o f Capricornboring and embarrassing. But Burnside says that Miller's notorious image as a pornographer and woman hater has hidden hi s vital, tr...[Llegir més]